On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 09:33:58AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:39:08AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > ... > >> ISPF edit. > >> I don't remember XEDIT well (1978), but I think the 2 editors are very > >> close. > > > > not really (aside from running on the same hardware). > > > > for your amusement > > > > https://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html#y1982 > > Interesting but I don't see where it shows great differences between the > two.
I suppose it depends on how you used the tools. ISPF had certain things that it could do, and (possibly the systems programs could alter it), as a user/developer on the system, I couldn't do that. But XEDIT was easy to program. Your comment reminds me that it may have been possible to run user-defined commands from the line-prefix. But I didn't do that - most of my macros/scripts were designed to be run via function-key (and using the cursor position). There weren't enough function-keys, so one of my scripts used F12 to page through the macros that I wanted to use (like pine, which I encountered 10-15 years later). > I see XEDIT uses the M/MM convention like ISPF Edit. Commands on the > command line or over the sequence numbers. Similar shift > commands. I see some commands are quite different words doing similar > things. and some the same. The screens themselves can look very similar. > > I wrote loads of ISPF edit macros. "G" for "ex all" followed by "find all Y", > "!s" for a spelling checker. "CC" for compile. > > While I was working on S/34 and later Wang/VS I wrote an ISPF like > full screen editor. It may seem perverse, but I wrote the editor > in COBOL. Worked out quite well. > > I didn't know you were a mainframer too. I haven't programmed in COBOL though. When I used VM/CMS, that was in CHILL (batch-compiling, etc), though the XEDIT and EXEC2 stuff amounted about the same number of lines... > Cool. > > -- > Dan Espen > -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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